Archive for October 29th, 2007

Dairy farmers $750m windfall

Monday, October 29th, 2007

The Greens have been getting plenty of stick from Fed Farmers etc for daring to suggest that the dairy industry should cover the cost of their excess greenhouse emissions rather than the taxpayer, as the govt proposes. Well this article puts an interesting light on it. Dairy farmers just received an extra $750m last week […]

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Sarkozy

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Some interesting environment proposals from ‘conservative’ French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The NZ National Party is so far away away from being blue-green party when you compare it to Sarkozy. Even the NZ Labour party is behind some of Sarkozy’s proposals:
Oct 25 (Reuters) -
French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled proposals on Thursday aimed at revolutionising France’s environmental […]

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